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plaeei on the Half-pay. Dated. Aug. x, ao3. First Lieutenant Thomas read to be Second • Captain,_ vice C ow per Dated as above. - Second Lieutenant Williwn C. Andnson to be. First Lizutenant, vice: Fear!. Dated , as above. Commissions signed by the Vice-Lietitenant.of the C9unty ot Vv'orcester. To be .Deputy Lieutenants—Diehard Chambers, Esq.. 1 - ,:ited I lily • 22, 1130. Richard Williams, • Esq. Dated iuir 3, ISJ - S. John lettirys, Esq. Dated as above. I , l4bett Yardoe, Laq. Dated as above. Sar9uel I3eale, Esq. 'Bated as aboviA Worcestershire Militia. HeiJy Ilarriseh, Gent. to be ; Lieutenant. Dated filly 16, ISA: -Henry Barrett, Cent. to be Lieutenant. Dated July 17, iBcB. William Webb, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated iuly 16, 1808. Dudley Volunteer Infantry. To Be Captains —Tnuinas Peach Aston-Padsey, Esq. Dated Aug. 16, 1308. Joseph Royle, Esq. Dated Ang. 17, • 18 8. To be Lieutenants---joseoh Bourne, Gent. Dated Aug. 16, iSoB. Thongs Lakin, Gent. Dated Aug. 17, 1508. To be Ensigns— Henry Pitt, Gent. Dated Aug. 16, 1808. Cox, Gent. Dated Aug. 17, 1808. William Philliys, Gent. Dated Aug. 13, 1808. To tie Surgeon—Cornelius Cartwright, cent. Dated Aug. 16, ;Sea Coriitaissiont signed by the NLordblk Lieutenant of the County ot ort. Western Regiment. Ensign Copeman to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, resigned.. Dated inly. 24, 18015. William Bridgman, Cent. to be Er.sign, vice Dyce, resigned. Dated as above. lames Fulcher, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Thoinlinson, pro nidted in a Regiment of the Line. Dated July z 6, 1808. 'Commissions in the tst ShropshireYeoinanry cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant. I. W. Brown, Esq. to be Captain, vice Dicken, resigned. Dated Atig. lc, 1808. Samuel Bradbury, Gent. to be Cornet; vice Griffiths, resigned. Dated as above. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr. Ayrshire Rifle Battalion. lames Campbell, Esq. to be Captain, vide liutchieson, re signed. Dated Aug. 17, tlicS. .4th' battalion of the ad Regiment Ayrshire 'Volunteer In . fantry. -Francis Steel, Gent. to be Surgeon, vice john Millar,absent without leave. Dated as above. • Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the. County of •Smithampton. Kingotriborn, StOckbridge,.?ze. Battalion of Volunteerjn fa n try . Tiionias Morgan, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Atkins, resigned. Dated Aug. 26, iScB. Thomas I mid, Gent. to be ditty, vice _Coulson, resigned. Dated as above. • MAILS. Ar-tivED-3 Waterford. DoE-2.Gottenburgh, i Dublin, Waterford. ['RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE . o'cLoc,,,K. Consols - - 65; 66 I Ka.:. Ann. - -66 T S U N. 301.3 M ZI:1$ DICV:b 74L5UM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 iV, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1;03. The - intelligence which has been received from Sicily affords strong ground to hope that we shall shortly he t ar-of the British Arms being as viaorious it-..1121y as they have recently been in Portugal. Sir 3. STE‘V,IaT, the ;len) of Maida; was making pre parations for effeaing a landing in Calabria, the Fr‹nch troops in the Neapolitan dotninions having bon considerably diminished. The glorious success which has attended the . etiorts of the Spaniards to assert tL it Independence, has produced a strong semsation in 't e lly. ,Nothing but the immense mili tary-force. BUONArARTE has hitherto main tai:teci irl that Country, has kept the Inhabitants frog) endeaVouring to rescue themselves from the intolerable oppression of the French. An oppor tunity, equally favourable and unexpected, now pre sents to them, and we are persuaded they will not neglect it. A very large proportion of the French troco that were in Italy have been withdrawn, for the purpose of being . enaploye.'d against 'Spain ; the remainder are spread in small divisions over an im mense Ira& of country; and if they *shotild, be at - tadked, SUONAPAtiqI r . has not now the means of reinforcing them. The tritish force in Sicily is cCrJsidciable, and there is every reason •to believe iirit it will speedily be greatly au=gmented. The British army in Portugal, which now consists of up wlirds '0130,00Q men, is (by' the surrende ) ; of .TtY NY)T, Which we have no doubt has taken place before this time) at liberty to be employed either in Spain or in Italy, - as clrcuMstances :nay require. Such has w?en the success Of . the Spaniards, that they seem barflly to requia; 'the assistance of auxiliaries to dive tiro Fk-,:tne4 from their territories, especially as their armies will shortly be reinforced by the 10,000 . NT; , t nail; who have been so fortunately delivered from the French yoke in the North of Europe. It seems, tneraore, inore probable that ocit.army at present in Portugal, or at least a very large part of it, will be eiripl6yeir in. 1,1 y,. Another Expedition will very sl4 . ortiv salt trod) tbis.Copntry, consisting of aboye ;2,000 men, whicli will giVe us a disposable force qpiA , m4k of 40,0c2 meLi, exclusive of the troops rte Sicily, to be employed either in Spain or Sicily. WE have received Barbadoes Papers to the 19th it. They contain an account of a mcst gallant but uns:;ccess‘fut attack upon the Island of St. Martin. We had Upon this occasion between `ro .and 30 men ~•, ilred. According to pq! c ! ) Journals received 'yesterday, ich reacndolrn to the 3d inst. and which con intelligence' :from Paris to the 30th ult, an!. iother Revolution has hr , Okeu out in Constantinople qf a very dreadful naturo. -.The GRAND SIGNOR had 'filed , a sacrifice to the fury of the people ;-and Oven his Childr4n had been murdered, and, with his own v.9rp, , ,, , e,w04 thrown into th , 2.iopen Stmts. The oii&in NAVAL NEWS. PORTSMOUTH SEPT. s.—Arrived this day the . : Trarspite, of 74 guns, Capt. the Hon. H. 1-31.AcK.- wool> ; the Quebec Frigate, Capt. the Hon. G. P3ULETT, from the Downs ; and the Solebay Fri gate, Capt. BROWN, from off Havre. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—Sailed his Majesty's Ship Resolute, on a ennize.— , Arrived this morning the Puzzle Logger from Gibraltar, 'bound to Guernsey; with barilla, 2s days passage—no news. On the 24th ult. spoke His • Majesty's. Ship Eurydice, with Convoy for Oporto, all well. Yesterday spoke His Majesty's Brig Swallow, of 18 guns, Capt. MlLtiEft, on a cruize. Sailed this morning His Majesty's Ship Success, of 38 guns, and the Tortoise, armed en flute, with the outward-bound Fleet, about- 47 SA E for Co- - . runna, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, .and Sicily ; they were joined from ,hence'bythe Flora; BROAD, Good Intent, CROSBY, Charles Hamilton, COCHRAN, 111etis, CUNNINGHAM, and - Autumn; -T -c ord for-- . Malta ; and the Lady Pellew, HARVEY, with a Mail for Corunna. • A . Frigate, under. a very heavy press of sail, passed this port this morning for the Eastward. The Princess Elizabeth Packet froin Malta may be hourly expected. . TORBAY, SEPT. s.—The Channel Fieet, under command of Admiral Du otc.wOßTli i sailed this morn ing to resume their station off Brest, but the wind coming to the Wettward, they are now returning. DEAL, SEPT. s.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Union, -, from Malta, and the Ccres, RICHARDSON, from Liverpool. GRIMSBY, SEPT. 4.—The Princess. of Wales Cut ter, Lieut. SOUTUCOTE, sailed this morning, with a Fleet of 20 Sail, for Gottenburgh.. IVELIT. BARBADOES, JULY 19. —His Majesty's Schooner Subtle arrived yesterday evening from off St. Mar tin's, where, with the Wanderer Sloop of War, and Balahou and Elizabeth Schooners, she had be , :n gaged in an attempt to carry that Island by a coup-de-main ; but which they were frustrated in, owing, chiefly, to some false information of the enemy's stiefagth, whom, however, they drove from three batteries, in a very gallant manner—but on attacking a fourth, had to sustain a sharp conflict , with more than. treble their number. About 130 seamen , and marines from this little Squadron were the whole engaged in the enterprise, headed by Lieutenant SPEARING of the Subtle, ,; ho unfortunately fell in storming the last ,battery, in which attempt about twenty or thirty men were also killed and wounded. The enemy's force at this , post was nearly 500 men, against wnorn it was impossible to make an etil,c,-tual stand or a safe retreat—a surrender therefore became the only al ternative, and the whole party consequently were made prisoners. We understand, however, that a Flag soon after pazed between the SqUadron and the shore, 'by which an immediate exchange was agreed upon. Such are the particulars of this un fortunate-affair that have.corne to our knowledge. On Sunday arrived here, the • French Cartel Schooner La Fine, nine days from Martinique, with 33 prisoners for 'exchange ; and Phcenix Cartel Sloop, from Cayenne, in six days, with twelve Letters from the Canary Islands, of the 29th and 30th ultimo, were yesterday received in town. These prisoners. ' The former Vessel affords no news, nor letiers describe the conduit of thoselslands from the do we hear of any late captures carried into Mar moment they received intelligence of the condu& of tinique ; but by the latter some circumstances have BUONAPARTB towards the mother country, Before ings of the Spa transpired of the highest im p ortan c e. Wit hout af . any thing was known of the proceed niards in consequence of the tidings from Bayonne, feeting to be well informed of their nature and ten a Carildo General was called. Their first resolution dency, we shall only for the present observe, that was to resist French domination ; t-o acknowledge Were we even in possession of every particular that only the old Sovereignty of Spain in* the- fainily of the BOURBONS. Tile next resolution of this Assem bly has been developed by a most fortuitious discovery, • was to solicit theprotedion of England—that •is ,we should not at present, for the most obvious rea its maritime protection, for they protested againit sons, enter into any detail. the idea of admitting any English troops. They By this Cartel, however,' we learn the capture of also resolved not to admit into their ports any armed • • . ' vessels belonging to any nation, until they should the - Brig George, M‘KrßisoN,-- from- Belfast,- bound hear from Spain. But immediately upon receiving to J ama i ca , and carried into Cayenne, by the Int . accounts from England*, the Junta Guhanativa, ' • ertal Brio - Serpent of 24 guns and 150 men, which . *pleb consists of representatives, froth all the Islands, P t) ' decreed that the ports should be thrown opus for all fell itt with her 60 miles to the eastward of this English vessels. And the-first names in the Islands i Island, and was twenty clays tow •in. g -her up to' • were appointed to compose this 'Junta, 'which is Cayenne: The cargo of .the George, ,consisting assembled a.t Tenerifie; and which" c o n si s t s o f r e_ . pre,sentatives from the different orders of • the corn- of nearly *l2OO barrels of , provisions, and some numity. Of this asSerobly . El Sena Marques DE dry , goods, aaually • relieved the Colony from' VILLANVEVA,DEL IYRADO is President, and the Se- a state of starvation, -there not being, at the time of; cretaries are F. JOSEPI-I OONBA.LEZ Y SOTO, and Don T - her arrival there, a single barrel at market.—The JIAN TABARES DE ROO. There was, on Sunday evening, a very numerous Serpent was from Bourdeaux ; and several other and elegant concourse of people on the Terrace, at armed Brigs are also expeaed there . from thence . "Windsor, in expetation and hope of seeing their . A Letter of Marque Ship, with flour, has lately MAJESTIES and the rest of the Royal Family, but they did not make their appearance. The last . • given them a seasonable supply. Upon the arrival three or four days have been very showery,; and the j of La liapide at. Cayenne, a Vessel was instantly air, in consequence; has •- been rather cool ; but the , dispatched to the river Plate, in consequence of the -whole of Sunday it continued very fair,. and . the advices brought by her. carriages were rattling into the town till near seven . o'clock. As suon as 'it was known that the Royal ' JULY 23.—. The French Sloop Phonix, from Cay- Family would not appear, the Bands of the Blues ' enne, which arrived here on Sunday last-as a cartel, and Stafford played, alternately, several martial and having excited suspicions as to the real objea of her other beautiful airs, and the Terrace was crowded with visitors till past eight, listening' to- them with voyage, has, upon examination, been : discovered to infinite satisfaOion. with , v ,; 1 havc: peen ' charged' p;.patehel: from VICTOR Huourg to the Captain Get.eta' &NOCE', of Go daloupe, transmitting - duplicates of those sent by BLIONAPARTIt from Bayonne, in the lately captured Schooner kji Ilapide, but which were thrown over- board during her attempt to escape from the ,Belette. On board the Phcenix, these duplicates were found concealed in a bread barrel ; and are not merely dispatches cram BUONAPAILTE, but embrace a large mass of ediets, proclamations, and instruct tions from the fallen 'Monarch of Spain, and big extinguished satellite the Prince of Pence, to the Provinces of Carraccas, St. Martha, Carthagenc, Vera Cruz, Mexico, and -the River Plate, and iu short,. to the ViCeroys, Governors, and Councils', throughout - the whole of Spanish South America, announcing, - on the one .part, the abdication of t he Throne—and the. elevation to it, on the other, of JOSEPH BIiUNAPARTE, to whOtEl they are enjoined to pay vassalag9 and obedience,' and deliver up alI those ektensive and valuable Provinces; to whicb. the Emperot NAPOLEON guarantees a flourishing commerce and extensive trade; under the proteetion . of the great nation which be controuls. • The 'xi.iscovery these - dispstebes.is -new- only- important, as far as they tend to confirm what had long evidently appeared to be the intentions of BUO NAPARTE towards Spain. Happily, by subse . quest events, all his projeas seem likely to be completely frustrated, for the gerin of liberty which burst forth with the counter-revolution at the head of the Empire, alike pervades her distant co lonies;and among them, all fraternalization with , the French is already broken. A state of hosti fad, has even commenced ; a ~vessel from Martinique - ,.• sent to.the Spanish Main for supplies, having been made prize of, and all the crew sent to prison ; another French vessel there,.on the sane errand, was attacked, but escaped by preci pitately putting to sea. All intercourse between them is now completely at an end ; and Spain may be fairly said to have shaken off the .yoke of France. AuotritfAitTß, confident, however, in his triumph over Spain, that the South American Colonies might. not be ignorant of the new Monarch which he had projected •for them, dispatched. other vessels besides La Rapido,lo this country with tho man dates of the depoSed King for their yielding to the sway of brother Jusiffeti.- One of these vessels (aa armed brig) .has eluded all our cruizers, and arrived at Guadaloupe on the 14th instant ; she was also direct from Bayonne, and left it about the same time with La liapide. We spoke onlyin distant allusion to these events in our last, La Fine Cartel from Martinique being here at the time ; the has since sailed, and we are induced now to be niore explicit. Sir A. Coca& 'UNE, upon investigating the several documents dis coveredon 'board the Placid:. (by being charged with which she so palpably violated the sacred rights of the cartel flag), had the-vessel seized, and she has since been libelled in .the Admiralty Court ;. and- - M,. 801111014, who was in charge of the dis patches, and the Captain of the vessel, have been. 'sent prisoners to 4ngland iu ;the Sullie Schooner, -by which . the Admiral also transmitted the dis' covered papers, entrusted to Lieut. SE oust, wh9 sailed in:the Subtle on Wednesday last. A Gentleman who made his escape from Bilboh, soon after the entrance of the French into that tovair had reached St. Andero, from whence he has writ' ten, that immediately on the enemy's entering the town, they, proceeded to commit every species of depredation, cruelty, • and murder. Several families were found murdered in their own houses ; and tO . one of the principal meets, called the Post-office" street, scarcely a family escaped. The houses Were , robbed of every thing valuable, the males murdered, and the females violated, and the towa was literally given up to pillage. • The following are the goods permitted, to 'be ex ported from Holland Butter, Cheese, Geneva, Earthenware, Rushes, -" .14-ve , Roots, Tiles and Pans, Hoops, Dried Hides, Cambria, ,ee,, tiler, Plants, Paper, Pipes, Sach. Saturni, Ground 14 1 *L". Bricks, Starch, ,Tobacco, Tarras, Flax,rruits, CloYerik Garden, and Flower Seeds, Madder. Dr. DAMPIER, Bishop of Rochester, is to b 6 translated to the see of Ely, in the room of the HOP' Dr. YoRKE, deceased; and the Rev. Dr. VINcENTI ,Dean of Westminster, is said to be the new Bishop The Rev. JOHN DONCASTER, A. M. a Fellow , Christ College, Cambridge, is . eleaed Head Master hof Oakhani School, Rutland.. t land. , • Orders had - been received at Deal for the imire ° diate embarkation of the Brigade of Guards there.-' The Brigade at Chatham its also to embark, other re" giment will join them, and this fresh embarkatio ti will eensist of about 10,000 men. ' The embadch tion at Cork, which had been suspended, is also immediately to take place. • , A Serjeant of the Royal Stannary Artillery C°' lunteers has discovered a method by which an oh' jet} may be. htt with a cannon-ball in the nigh t time with equal ease, as in open day-light, and lately.urdered ,by the Board of Ordnance to proce o-1 . to Plymouth-dock to try the experiment, • Whi ch Ile, did in the presence of Gen. STEPHENS and . sevsr3ii. other Officers, and has since received the thanks n. the Board and a reward tor the discovery. This genienS man has invented a quadrant, by gun has been , laid .with such accuracy , t h a t he ha5..1,..)1„ a"pole at a thousand yards distanCe, and bro ke it 1" a - single shot.' • of this horrible event has not beettstated, but it is Slip._ posed to have arisen in a general indignation on account of the ascendancy of tlie French counsels over the mind of the unfortunate Emperor and his Ministers. If, so, the consequences must, of course, be favour 7 able to this Country, as our commercial relatiOns in that quarter will be renewed, and in little 4elihood of being again interrupted by French . intrigues, 'af., ter what has happened in France, where French perfidy and barbarity have been so notorious, and so happily punished. It is said that the number of Insurgents in Constantinople amount to upwards of 40,000 in arms, and that their proceedings have been- I of the most sanguinary description. We have received some Portuguese Papers to the 24th ult. They contain some interesting details re speaing our military operations in that Country ; and it gives us the most sincere pleasure that they speak as highly of the orderly conduct and eNad discipline of our soldiers, as they do of their courage in the field. The number of Volunteers that have offered to transfer their services to the LoCal Militia amount to no less than ninety thousand. The arrival of General/16c DoBRO, .the Governor of Monte Video, with his family, in this Country, is an event, of some importance in the present situa tion of Spain. This Gentleman came in the Spanish Frigate La Prueva to Plymouth, and reached town on Sunday last : he is said to bringintelligence par ticularly interesting.—A great change in the senti-• ments and disposition of the people towards theEng fish Nation has no doubt taken place since . they . have heard of the generous assistance which we have rendered to the Mother Country ; but it is by no means certain that they will remain in the same state of dependence on the latter. Yet whatever events may happen in that quarter . of the world, we haVe. reason to believe that nothing will occur to disturb the harmony between the Spanish Colonies and this Country; but on the contrary, there is the greatest probability of a vast commercial intercourse, that will be mutually advantageous, and' tend to" draw closer the ties of good-will and amity. • 'lt has been erroneously reported that the Marquis DE ROMANA has arrived in this Country: he is, however, daily expeded, together with a consider able portion of the Spanish troops.. By the Tiger, arrived a Li4Tpool, the following letter has been received, dated.liaitAdocs, my f:!4 ; " His Majesty's Ship Raniillies intends to leave Tortola on or before the soth inst. with the trade for Great Britain, &c. The trade fro►n hence sailed on the fah inst. ; the trade from St. Lth!ie" passed Dominica on the igth the trade from the latter Island intended to sail on the 2 Ist ; and the trade from Antigua on the 22d, fur the place of rendez- vous.'' There are private letters in town, from the Con, tinent, which state, that the obsequious Senate of Paris have thought proper to address their ambitious usurper, beseeching him to relinquish, for the pre sent, his design of enlightening the People of Por tugal and Spain, and to withdraw his Armies till time and reflection shall render those countries more sensible of the blessings which he intended for them; I t i s no t impossible that the defeated Tyrant may really endeavour to covet his disgrace with a farce of this kind, and the Senate may have had a hint to put the dramain 'due preparation, in order to give a new turn to the catastrophe of his intendsd tra gedies in the countries which, we tiut,.are now etfe6tualiy relieved froni all danger'of his oppressiVe management.